It'll affect any motherboard manufacturers who want their boards to be 'Win8 certified'.
In practice, the current spec requires it to be disableable from the boot menu. However, Joe Bloggs isn't going to be comfortable messing in the bios to install a non MS OS, and it's (in some people 's opinion) a slippery slope to more restricted implementations in the future. From: surfer Sent: 01/06/2012 09:16 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Heads up: Fedora pays Microsoft Does this merely concern HP and Dell machines or will it affect my cut price bare bones machines I order from Novatech? Patrick Mulvey On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 08:06 +0100, alan c wrote: > On 01/06/12 08:02, mac wrote: > > On 1 Jun 2012, at 07:48, alan c<aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: > > > >> From the Bad News department: > >> > >> Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot > >> on users' computers > >> By Cory Doctorow May 31 > >> http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html > > > > This is the sort of anti-competitive, monopolist behaviour from Microsoft > > that the EU should take action to stop. Again. :( > > Other things being equal, (which they are not) it significantly > affects dual boot possibilities. > > -- > alan cocks > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
